We are looking for a Staff PHP Engineer to join our new core team and help shape the architecture behind our high-load products. You’ll tackle complex, foundational technical challenges, work primarily with PHP and dive deep into infrastructure that supports products used by a massive audience. If you enjoy solving hard architectural problems, care about how systems work under the hood, and want to leave a lasting mark on the product’s foundation, this one’s for you🚀
📍 What to Do
- Modern Tech Stack: Work with PHP 8.3+, Laravel 13+, and MariaDB to build and maintain scalable solutions
- Minimal Meetings, Maximum Focus: We value your time and prioritize productivity so you can focus on writing quality code
- Flexible Hours: Work when you’re most productive. Early bird or night owl, it’s up to you
- Collaborative Environment: Experienced teammates love discussing technical challenges, sharing knowledge, and helping each other grow
- Code Quality First: We’re committed to reducing legacy code, writing tests, and keeping our stack modern and maintainable
- Solid DevOps Support: With a dedicated DevOps team handling infrastructure and automated pipelines (PHPStan, PHPCS, unit, integration, and end-to-end tests), deployments are smooth and reliable
- Clean Architecture: We structure our code for clarity and testability, avoiding “magic” solutions and keeping business logic separate from the framework
- Modular Monolith with DDD: Our modular architecture uses scenarious, actions, and events for clean boundaries, and we apply Domain-Driven Design where it adds real value
- Non-trivial tasks with different domains and infrastructure
🦸 Your Superpowers
- 7+ years of backend development experience
- 5+ years of PHP experience
- Strong LLM command
- Knowledge what is “Circular shift” and bitwise operators
- B1+ level of English
- Experience in one of the frameworks: Yii2/Laravel/Symfony
- Experience in SQL databases, caches and queues (we use MariaDB and Redis)
- Unit tests writing skill
- Understanding and experience of virtualization (Docker)
- Knowledge of Software Development and Architectural patterns
- Prioritization of bringing Product value over achieving Engineering perfection
🤘 Bonus Points
- To be familiar with any compiled programming language
- Be aware of DDD & TDD
- Experience in building modular/service-oriented applications
- Broad knowledge of Databases
- Knowledge of Computer Science (algorithms and data structures)
- Experience in working with Kubernetes, AWS
- Previous work with Financial systems, Risk analytics systems, Authentication systems
- Experience in modern non-PHP languages (TypeScript, Python, Go, C#, others)
- Team management experience or interest in trying out to manage a team
- Public activity on GitHub
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🍪 Team Perks
- PRO&BRO team you’ll love creating new gaming universes with
- Totally remote work from wherever you grind
- An equipment budget to upgrade your home office
- Flexible schedule with no time trackers since we just focus on results
- A performance-based bonus twice a year for every mojamer as a nod to our shared achievements
- Wellness Bonus for the gym, yoga, dance, massage, therapy, or anything that keeps your energy up
- Level up your skills with our internal knowledge-sharing project Yoda. We also cover training, certifications, English & Ukrainian classes
- Days off and gifts for milestones of your choice (birthday, anniversary, baby arrival, or wedding)
- JAM Activities: workations twice a year in different corners of the world, epic offline teambuilding events, CS2 and Dota tournaments, quizzes, lectures, and plenty of other hangouts for the team
- Plus relocation support, a Maternity/Paternity Leave Policy, a referral bonus, and a whole bunch of other cool perks you can check out here
Join us if this is all about you. We are waiting for your CV!
Let’s Add More Jam Together 🚀
